إِذا ما تَرَدّى لأمَةَ الحَربِ أُرعِدَت
حَشا الأَرضِ وَاِستَدمى الرِماحُ الشَوارِعُ
When he dons the armor of war, there tremble
When war's clamor rises for the nation
the earth's bowels, and the leveled spears grow bloody.
The earth quakes and spears flood the streets
وَأَسفَرَ تَحتَ النَقعِ حَتّى كَأَنَّهُ
صَباحٌ مَشى في ظُلمَةِ اللَيلِ طالِعُ
And he shines beneath the battle-dust, until he seems
And under armor dawn emerges
a rising dawn walking through the darkness of night.
Like morning walking in night's darkness
وَما لِأَمريٍ حاوَلتَهُ مِنكَ مَهرَبٌ
وَلَو رَفَعَتهُ في السَماءِ المَطالِع
And no man you pursue has any escape from you,
No escape for a commander you oppose
even if the paths of ascent lift him into the sky.
Though into the sky's horizon he fled
بَلى هارِبٌ لا يَهتَدي لِمَكانِهِ
ظَلامٌ وَلا ضَوءٌ مِنَ الصُبحِ ساطِعُ
Yes—one fugitive whose whereabouts can be found by neither
A fugitive, lost, his place unseen
darkness nor a radiant light from the dawn.
Darkness, no daylight in the dawn exposed
وَأَثَّلَ ما لَم يَحوِهِ مُتَقَدِّمِ
وَإِن نالَ مِنهُ آخِرٌ فَهُوَ تابِعُ
And he has built up what no predecessor had attained;
Annihilates what no earlier attained
and if a later man gains some of it, he is but a follower.
And if another reached it, he followed then
Sol 6.1